Partnership Income Taxation (Concepts and Insights)

This handbook examines partnership tax laws, enabling readers to easily understand specific provisions within a larger context. Some of the topics covered include what constitutes a partnership; partnerships vs. corporations; partnership vs. co-ownership of property; the pass-through principle of partnership taxation; an introduction to partnership debt; allocations of partnership income; transactions between partnerships and their partners; sales of partnership interests; partnership distributions; payments to retiring partners; and the death of a partner.